CINeMA: Software for semiautomated assessment of the confidence in the results of network meta‐analysis
University of Bern · Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine · +1 more institution
Abstract
Abstract Network meta‐analysis (NMA) compares several interventions that are linked in a network of comparative studies and estimates the relative treatment effects between all treatments, using both direct and indirect evidence. NMA is increasingly used for decision making in health care, however, a user‐friendly system to evaluate the confidence that can be placed in the results of NMA is currently lacking. This paper is a tutorial describing the Confidence In Network Meta‐Analysis (CINeMA) web application, which is based on the framework developed by Salanti et al (2014, PLOS One , 9, e99682) and refined by Nikolakopoulou et al (2019, bioRxiv ). Six domains that affect the level of confidence in the NMA…
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Authors
5- TPTheodoros PapakonstantinouCorresponding
University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
- ANAdriani Nikolakopoulou
University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
- JPJulian P. T. Higgins
University of Bristol
- MEMatthias Egger
University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
- GSGeorgia Salanti
University of Bern, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
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